Project "Rely-on-ability" : 6 bolt rebuild - Page 9

blcknspo0ln · 09-03-2008, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 4Motion4g63

Got to say great build......just one thing looks a miss.....

The battery relocation you did looks as if it will hamper your tranny installation a bit...at least from this angle of the picture may be hard to stab the bolt thu and tighten it up..

yea I ended up re-fabbing a new bracket. I'll take pictures of it soon

you are right, though. I am saving on installing it until after the engine/trans are bolted into the car. This new bracket is going to be able to stay in the car, but will allow me to remove the battery whereas the original one couldn't

blcknspo0ln · 09-03-2008, 10:25 PM

sorry, just had a mini-scare. I thought I uploaded everything from the SD card and deleted it all before I checked

thanks to Defiant for letting me know how to recover those sumbitches.

cleaned off the head with some air and scotch pad

laid down the head (NEVER lay it on a hard surface, I used cardboard momentarily but always have it on its side.

ARP washers put in

OEM HG copper sprayed

head slid on, watch out for washers falling out! I like to put the pistons all evenly throughout the cylinders, just for sake of knowing that my valves aren't hitting anything.

head torqued 30/60/85, valve cover put on but not bolted on. I generally run the car for a heat cycle and then pull the cover off again to retorque the studs.

upper timing tin installed

blingified JMF SMIM put back on

I hated how I routed my water lines originally, so I welded in a steel 1/2"-3/8" adaptor from ACE hardware and used a 3/8" brass barbed fitting. Don't laugh at my welds ! it's a gasless mig and I later put a layer of jb weld on there for good measure.

blcknspo0ln · 09-03-2008, 10:33 PM

turbo system installed, remember to antiseize! I forgot to put the damn exh mani gasket on, so I had to pull it off after this shot and AFTER i spent 10 minutes bolting it down

new earl's inline filter. I'm too paranoid from the spun bearing to let that filter stay on

plugged this fitting because I no longer run my MBC from here (run it from the SMIM now)

threw the JMF heatshield on and took the final pics of the night, not too shabby for on-off work in one afternoon. I still have to prime the engine with ND30 oil, time it, and tie up other odds and ends.

MidShipCivic · 09-03-2008, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by blcknspo0ln

laid down the head (NEVER lay it on a hard surface, I used cardboard momentarily but always have it on its side.

Why?

turbosax2 · 09-03-2008, 11:09 PM

The head is made of aluminum and is therefore easy to damage the sealing surface.

kawboy · 09-04-2008, 12:07 PM

Looks good

One thing I would of done with that pan is scrape out the grooves of all the old OEM Gray Sealant. Thats what I did, and it seals best this way rather then putting fresh stuff ontop of already filled slots.

erald01 · 09-04-2008, 12:11 PM

Looking good, hopefully you will do one more run down the track before the season is over.

iugrad92turbo · 09-04-2008, 12:23 PM

That looks great reminds me of last winter, what a project.

VETTE_50_TH · 09-05-2008, 12:32 AM

I'll be having that much fun soon enough!1

James

blcknspo0ln · 09-05-2008, 01:12 PM

it's only fun AFTER you have spent the money and recuperated.

I'm off to tie up some loose ends and hopefully drop the engine in today

VETTE_50_TH · 09-05-2008, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by blcknspo0ln

it's only fun AFTER you have spent the money and recuperated.

I'm off to tie up some loose ends and hopefully drop the engine in today

So how did it go? I worked on my car today replacing both balljoints and tightening down my loose ass axle nuts. THEY WERENT EVEN FINGER TIGHT!!!

James

blcknspo0ln · 09-05-2008, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by VETTE_50_TH

So how did it go? I worked on my car today replacing both balljoints and tightening down my loose ass axle nuts. THEY WERENT EVEN FINGER TIGHT!!!

James

Damn that sucks, at least you got to it before anything happened

As for my night? it sucked the big one. Problem after problem after problem, one in which included my engine swinging upside down on the engine stand and breaking my thermostat housing off. I'm very tired and fed up wit the car. Tomorrow will be another day, but for now I'm spent.

VETTE_50_TH · 09-05-2008, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by blcknspo0ln

Damn that sucks, at least you got to it before anything happened

As for my night? it sucked the big one. Problem after problem after problem, one in which included my engine swinging upside down on the engine stand and breaking my thermostat housing off. I'm very tired and fed up wit the car. Tomorrow will be another day, but for now I'm spent.

Where was the GF to catch that shit? WTH is she good for is she wont catch your engine.

Well im sure it will be worth it in the end. Did you break any of the bolts int the Tstat housing off in the head? Yea im glad too. I thought the movement left and right was my engine, haha, negative, it was the wheels moving side to side.

OUCH

James

RipperXX · 09-06-2008, 02:52 AM

That could have ended much worse by the sound of it!

And your right blck tomorrow is another day, just keep on moving. And double and triple check shit. I look forward to seeing the end result of all this. Good luck.

blcknspo0ln · 09-13-2008, 03:00 PM

THE CAR RUNS!

After dealing with this NIGHTMARE, I got the car to fire up and she moved under her own power out of the garage today! Pictures, updates, and more things to walkthrough will be on the way as soon as my girlfriend gets back from florida with my point&shoot. Sadly, though, I definitely cannot take the car to JMF's open house tomorrow due to several issues

1. boost leak somewhere (test to come)
2. passenger side axle spline will not stay inside the bellhousing. I took the metal clip out of the axle to stick it back into the spline, but now it won't stay in place? Anything I can do?
3. misc. coolant leaks
4. retorque head after it's 3rd heat cycle and finally button up the valve cover.

VTEC_THIS · 09-13-2008, 03:07 PM

Awesome, glad to see you got it running!

1992awdlaser · 09-13-2008, 03:28 PM

You need to see if the metal clip is moving out of its spot on the axle. I had this happening on a car I was working on when I was a mechanic and it would cause the axle to slide back out. Sometimes the metal clip would slide back into place when the axle came out and sometimes it would stay in the transmission.

blcknspo0ln · 09-13-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 1992awdlaser

You need to see if the metal clip is moving out of its spot on the axle. I had this happening on a car I was working on when I was a mechanic and it would cause the axle to slide back out. Sometimes the metal clip would slide back into place when the axle came out and sometimes it would stay in the transmission.

yup, I was just researching that. I mangled mine pretty badly taking it out and forgot to put it back in